
Anna Burnside
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It may be that Worcester created these tureens by taking a mould from an actual cauliflower. In any case, these beguiling brassicas would have appealed to the mid-18th century taste for naturalistic forms on the dinner table. The printed butterflies are in-keeping with this aesthetic but also serve to highlight the relatively new and wholly English technology of overglaze printing on porcelain. A pair of undecorated Worcester Cauliflowers from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams on 16 March 2004, lot 40.